diff --git a/cmd/helm/release_testing.go b/cmd/helm/release_testing.go
index e4e09ef3b..fbf0dd112 100644
--- a/cmd/helm/release_testing.go
+++ b/cmd/helm/release_testing.go
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ package main
 import (
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
+	"regexp"
+	"strings"
 	"time"
 
 	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
@@ -39,6 +41,7 @@ func newReleaseTestCmd(cfg *action.Configuration, out io.Writer) *cobra.Command
 	client := action.NewReleaseTesting(cfg)
 	var outfmt = output.Table
 	var outputLogs bool
+	var filter []string
 
 	cmd := &cobra.Command{
 		Use:   "test [RELEASE]",
@@ -53,6 +56,14 @@ func newReleaseTestCmd(cfg *action.Configuration, out io.Writer) *cobra.Command
 		},
 		RunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
 			client.Namespace = settings.Namespace()
+			notName := regexp.MustCompile(`^!\s?name=`)
+			for _, f := range filter {
+				if strings.HasPrefix(f, "name=") {
+					client.Filters["name"] = append(client.Filters["name"], strings.TrimPrefix(f, "name="))
+				} else if notName.MatchString(f) {
+					client.Filters["!name"] = append(client.Filters["!name"], notName.ReplaceAllLiteralString(f, ""))
+				}
+			}
 			rel, runErr := client.Run(args[0])
 			// We only return an error if we weren't even able to get the
 			// release, otherwise we keep going so we can print status and logs
@@ -80,6 +91,7 @@ func newReleaseTestCmd(cfg *action.Configuration, out io.Writer) *cobra.Command
 	f := cmd.Flags()
 	f.DurationVar(&client.Timeout, "timeout", 300*time.Second, "time to wait for any individual Kubernetes operation (like Jobs for hooks)")
 	f.BoolVar(&outputLogs, "logs", false, "dump the logs from test pods (this runs after all tests are complete, but before any cleanup)")
+	f.StringSliceVar(&filter, "filter", []string{}, "specify tests by attribute (currently \"name\") using attribute=value syntax or '!attribute=value' to exclude a test (can specify multiple or separate values with commas: name=test1,name=test2)")
 
 	return cmd
 }
diff --git a/cmd/helm/testdata/helmhome/helm/repository/test-name-index.yaml b/cmd/helm/testdata/helmhome/helm/repository/test-name-index.yaml
index 895e79d39..d5ab620ad 100644
--- a/cmd/helm/testdata/helmhome/helm/repository/test-name-index.yaml
+++ b/cmd/helm/testdata/helmhome/helm/repository/test-name-index.yaml
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 apiVersion: v1
 entries: {}
-generated: "2020-06-23T10:01:59.2530763-07:00"
+generated: "2020-09-09T19:50:50.198347916-04:00"
diff --git a/pkg/action/release_testing.go b/pkg/action/release_testing.go
index 2f6f5cfce..ecaeaf59f 100644
--- a/pkg/action/release_testing.go
+++ b/pkg/action/release_testing.go
@@ -37,12 +37,14 @@ type ReleaseTesting struct {
 	Timeout time.Duration
 	// Used for fetching logs from test pods
 	Namespace string
+	Filters   map[string][]string
 }
 
 // NewReleaseTesting creates a new ReleaseTesting object with the given configuration.
 func NewReleaseTesting(cfg *Configuration) *ReleaseTesting {
 	return &ReleaseTesting{
-		cfg: cfg,
+		cfg:     cfg,
+		Filters: map[string][]string{},
 	}
 }
 
@@ -62,11 +64,37 @@ func (r *ReleaseTesting) Run(name string) (*release.Release, error) {
 		return rel, err
 	}
 
+	skippedHooks := []*release.Hook{}
+	executingHooks := []*release.Hook{}
+	if len(r.Filters["!name"]) != 0 {
+		for _, h := range rel.Hooks {
+			if contains(r.Filters["!name"], h.Name) {
+				skippedHooks = append(skippedHooks, h)
+			} else {
+				executingHooks = append(executingHooks, h)
+			}
+		}
+		rel.Hooks = executingHooks
+	}
+	if len(r.Filters["name"]) != 0 {
+		executingHooks = nil
+		for _, h := range rel.Hooks {
+			if contains(r.Filters["name"], h.Name) {
+				executingHooks = append(executingHooks, h)
+			} else {
+				skippedHooks = append(skippedHooks, h)
+			}
+		}
+		rel.Hooks = executingHooks
+	}
+
 	if err := r.cfg.execHook(rel, release.HookTest, r.Timeout); err != nil {
+		rel.Hooks = append(skippedHooks, rel.Hooks...)
 		r.cfg.Releases.Update(rel)
 		return rel, err
 	}
 
+	rel.Hooks = append(skippedHooks, rel.Hooks...)
 	return rel, r.cfg.Releases.Update(rel)
 }
 
@@ -99,3 +127,12 @@ func (r *ReleaseTesting) GetPodLogs(out io.Writer, rel *release.Release) error {
 	}
 	return nil
 }
+
+func contains(arr []string, value string) bool {
+	for _, item := range arr {
+		if item == value {
+			return true
+		}
+	}
+	return false
+}